Graduate

The Master of Arts in Contemporary Arts (MA) is at the forefront of an emergent intermedial approach to the arts. A radical mutuality characterizes the relationships among the visual arts, visual culture, performing arts, and art forms that incorporate reproducible and digital media. This program thinks across the media arts in a comparative perspective that synthesizes the historical and theoretical approaches of art history, performance studies, and studies of computer-based arts.

The Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFA) program provides advanced, professional interdisciplinary training for artists in the fields of music, dance, theatre, film, video and visual art. The program develops student's individual artistic practice, creativity, interdisciplinary research, technical skill and critical awareness of art's relationship to contemporary society.  

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Contemporary Arts is a research-intensive program focused on scholarly and practiced-based approaches to the fine and performing arts. Students may undertake comparative scholarly approaches to visual culture, media arts, sound studies, and performance studies, culminating in a substantial written thesis, or pursue a mix of studio, curatorial, and community-based research, resulting in the creation of an original artwork or a public presentation supplemented by a substantial written body of work incorporating students’ reflection and commentary.

Future Course Offerings

Here's the planned course load for our graduate programs (which have some courses in common) for 2023-24:

Fall 2023

• CA 811 (Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar 1) with Kathy Slade
• CA 812 (Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar 2) with Eldritch Priest
• CA 813 (Interdisciplinary Graduate Studio) with Judy Radul
• CA 821 (Research Methods in Contemporary Arts) with Joe Clark
• CA 822 (MA Research Colloquium) with Claudette Lauzon
• CA 828 (New Approaches to Sound and the Arts) with Eldritch Priest
• CA 885 (Studio in Contemporary Arts 2) with Mauricio Pauly
• CA 890 (Professional Practices Seminar 1) with Claudette Lauzon

Spring 2024

• CA 824 (New Approaches in Moving-Image Studies) with Joe Clark
• CA 825 (New Approaches in Digital Art Studies) with Arne Eigenfeldt
• CA 883 (Studio in Contemporary Arts 1) with Nadia Shihab
• CA 891 (Professional Practices Seminar 2) with Claudette Lauzon

Please visit the Course Calender for course descriptions.

Questions?

For further inquiries about the SCA's Graduate Programs, please send an email to the Graduate Program Coordinator: sca_gpa@sfu.ca.

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